... Geopolitical risk Institutionalization Risk management Geopolitics Uncertainty International business Risk The end of the Cold War may have led us to believe that the world was entering a period of fairly definitive peace. Companies have, thus, been able to develop their activities in a stable...

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.... culture and language knowledge; and 4. understanding French business culture. Tanja Kontinen can be contacted at: tanja.kontinen@jyu.fi © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Small to medium‐sized enterprises International business Finland France As the third largest...

... organized and entrepreneurially‐driven (and branded) firms are addressed in terms of both problems and solutions. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Management strategy International business Competitive advantage Entrepreneurialism Gordon Ramsay is a leading celebrity chef...

... Publishing Limited 2008 Emerging markets International business Companies considering a realignment of their global business platform face a more complicated set of business choices than ever before. Not only are many of the most popular investment locations at, or close to, saturation...

... become less reliable as uncertainty increases, paralyzing tactical and strategic decisions (Wack, 1985). Business development China Management strategy International business Multinational companies The CEOs and senior managers of companies generally provide strategic direction...

.... Everyone seems to trumpet their value, although businesses have long blurred the boundaries between competition and cooperation. Strategic alliances Globalization International business Asset valuation © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Each cross‐border alliance requires...

...Pieter K. Jagersma; Désirée M. van Gorp China may be the world’s largest growth market, but it has not always been hospitable to foreign companies. This appears from a survey of 381 managers of foreign companies active in China done by the Center for International Business of Universiteit Nyenrode...